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The Rhythm Section

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As the Confucian proverb goes: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” Unfortunately for Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively), she’s going to need...

Reel to reel | Week of October 17, 2013

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After Tiller...

Downhill

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Lyz Lopez started skiing when she was 4. Who knows what first drew her to the sport, but 11 years on the slopes have...

Storytelling for a cause

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Herschel Goldberg wants you to see Liyana. “The core message is something that everybody needs to see,” Goldberg says. “Or feel. It’s more about the...

Gilda Radner: Her voice and her writing

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There seems to be an endless fascination with the famed Saturday Night Live. While the merits of the weekly television show are continually debated...

A slice of ‘Ninja’

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The extraordinarily violent Ninja Assassin opens with a tough guy Yakuza gang leader having a tattoo inked on his back by a mysterious old man who talks about the four noble professions, the five rings, and other cliché Japanese cultural mumbo-jumbo. A henchman ...

Think about what you’re trying to do to me

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Let’s go back, let’s go back; let’s go way on, way back when, back when we use to swipe our favorite alternative band’s cassette...

All I need to get by

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There weren’t any crowds in Park City, Utah, and the big studios may have stayed away, but the 2021 Sundance Film Festival proved that...

Home viewing: Cheryl Dunye

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Sometimes you have to create your own history. —Cheryl Dunye She calls them “Dunyementaries”: Cinematic blends of fiction and documentary, construction and confession. They’re self-reflexive...

Taking a scenic sociopath

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Oftentimes, films determined to be quirky and fun actually come off as little more than overconfident jackassery, a condition now known as Baby Driver-itis....

Better living through cinema

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From March 9 to 19, the Boulder Jewish Film Festival will screen over 20 different films of various lengths with subjects of inclusion, diversity...

The art of the real

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Screening Aug. 4-10, the Mimesis Documentary Festival (MDF) takes over the Dairy Arts Center’s cinemas for a simultaneous return and debut. A return as...